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No. 848,714. PATENTED APR. 2, 1907.

, A. E. WISE.

BOOK COVER.

APPLIGATiON FILED JUNE 2, 1906.

fiscal ed 6.12. as j/ I CHARLES EDWARD WISE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BOOK-COVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 2, 1907.

Application filed June 2,1906- Serial No. 319,891.

To all whom it may concern: V I

Be it known that I, CHARLES EDWARD f WVISE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and j State of New. York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Book Covers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is advantageously used on order-books, cheek-books, receipt-books, and 1 similar blank forms which are used with a stub and where a date-indicator or calendar should be before-the user.

This cover may be madewith a springback to temporarily hold the leaves or be bound permanently thereon.

The under or back side of the cover is made the full size of the leaves of the book, and the top side of the cover is made narrow to cover the stubs only. A calendar for any desired period is securedupon or attached to this narrow side of the cover by any suitable I means.

The invention is fully illustratedin the ac oompanying drawings, lo tters of reference in-' dicating corresponding parts in the views.

Figure 1 is a plan of the invention with parts of the top cover broken away. i Fig. 2 l is a vertical cross-section on line a". m of Fig. 1. f

Theletter A designat es the back of a book- 5 cover, B the under side of the cover, and 5 (J the upper side of the cover. The side B is made the full size of the leaves D of the book; but the upper side 0 is made quite narrow. i

In the drawings the leaves I) are shown to be printed as receipt blanks, having their stubs (Z beneath the. cover C. A flat recess or pocket 0 is formed in an edge of the coy'er 0, extending nearly to the opposite edge of said cover, and an opening 0 is made in the outer face of said cover C.

E indicates a calendar adapted to be inserted in said pocket 0 and to be visiblefull size of said leaves and its upper side the size of the stubs only, a flat pocket in said stub-cover, an opening through the outer face of said stub-co\-'e1 -into said pocket and a removable calendar in said pocket visible through said opening as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CIIAR I JES EDWARD WISE. \Vitncsses:

ALFRED W. iUILLAU, RICHARD H. .\[rrcnnm'.. 

